Applicator cabinet



Feb. 12, 1929. 1,701,955

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Patented Feb. E12, 1929.

lTED STATES CHARLES D. MCDONALD, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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Application filed December 1, 1927. Serial No. 236,987.

This invention relates to applicators and more especially to cabinets thereof.

An object of my present invention is to im-.

prove the cabinet of such machines as shown in my application Ser. No. 228,369, filed Oct. 2%, 1927, in which a front door is hinged to incline forward and downward and carries a panel to be laid as a platform on which the person being treated may stand. Thus the platform serves as a loaded anchor to brace the cabinet by means of the inclined front door.

By my present invention it is possible to eliminate the platform if desired and use only the front door.

To that end, I provide a front door with brace means attachable to the cabinet in a manner to rigidly hold the door and cabinet so that the pull of the applicator strap will not tip the cabinet forward.

There are other objects, advantages and features of construction, combination and details of means as will be made manifest in the following specification of the herewith illu trative embodiment; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within the spirit, scope and principle of the invention as it is more directly claimed hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a perspective of the cabinet; the door bein extended.

Figure 2 is a plan of a fragment of the door and its retracted bracemeans.

Figure 3 is a section and plan showing a modified form of brace.

The present cabinet 2 has a main, outer front door 3 hinged on one edge to a cross piece of the cabinet so as to be swung down from a vertical closing position to an inclined position, Fig. 1 with its outer edge near or on the floor as determined by the inclusion or omission of a leaf or panel 5.

This panel is hinged at 6 to the outer or swinging edge of the door 3 and when the lat ter is extended the panel lies as a platform on the floor.

In the present invention a means is included to rigidly connect the extended door to the cabinet to form a direct brace of the door if the platform is omitted or is not unfolded from the door Such means includes a spring hook 10 one end of which is provided with a pivot arm j ournaled in a bearing 12 on the inside of the door.

The bearing is set back from the near edge of the door so that the hook shank 10 can be shifted over onto the face of the door as in Fig. 2 or pulled out beyond the edge of the door so that the hook end can be snapped into a socket 13 shown in a leg of the cabinet.

If desired an expansion spring 1 f may be applied to the arm 11 to automatically draw the hook 10 onto the door face as the hook is released from its socket and arranged in the plane of its journal face on the door.

The hook shank 10 may normally be at such an angle to its pivot arm 11 that when in the hooking and bracing positiom Fig. 1, it is under a tension tending to drive its hook end into the socket 13; either with or without the retracting spring 14.

It is obvious that such a brace may be used on each side edge of the door 2. y i

The brace and door project to such a degree in front of the cabinet that this is firmly held against tilting effect due to operation of the applicator strap S when this is being used upon a person standing in front of the cab inet. The lower end of the door 3 has floor pads 15 to rest on the floor in the event the platform 5 is not used.

Figure 3 shows a brace 10 which is slidably mounted on the cabinet so that the former may be pulled out and hooked onto the lowered door. A spring latch 16 operates to lock the extended brace.

The invention claimed is:

An applicator cabinet having a front door connected thereto to be laid obliquely as a brace and means for connecting the extended door to the cabinet; said means including a hook having a ournal arm slidably journaled on the door to be shifted to and from an effective position over the edge of the door.

CHAS. D. MODGNALD. 

